116 EAILLD^. 



a". Larger : throat, fore neck, and chest 



rufous like the crown insulans S , p. 118. 



h". Smaller : throat whitish, washed with 

 rufous ; the lower throat, fore neck, and 

 chest black, streaked with white like 



the rest of the under surface lineata S , p. 118, 



c'. Wing-coverts handed with sandy buff like 



the back and breast pulchra 5 , p. 116. 



d! . Wing-coverts dark chocolate-brown, with 

 indistinct black centres to the feathers, 

 like the back ; breast ashy brown watersi c? » p- 119, 



b. TaU chestnut, barred with black. 



c'. Head and neck chestnut like the throat and 



chest; back black, banded with ocheous. . pulchra 2, p. 116. 

 f. Head and neck streaked with black and 



ochre, like the back insularis J , p. 118. 



c. Tail black, with rufous bands. 



g'. Head and neck bright chestnut, like the 



lower throat and chest elegans J > P- 1-0. 



Ji . Head brown, with fulvous streaks or bars. . reichenovi ^ , p. 121. 



c". Larger : crown of head barred with 



black; back and wing-coverts spotted 



with ochi'e ; chest brown, mottled with 



ochre and black bars ; abdomen white, 



barred with black elegans $ , p. 120. 



d" . Smaller: crown of head streaked with 

 black ; back and wing-coverts barred 

 with black ; under surface of body white, 

 with spots of black, only the flanks being 



barred with black lineata $ , p, 118. 



I . Head uniform brown ; throat and chest 



whitish luateni J , p. 119, 



d. Tail black, or with minute spots of white. 



k' . Head and neck chestnut like the throat 

 and chest, 

 e". Larger : tarsus 1 inch ; head and neck I rufa c5 1 p. 121. 



deep vinous chestnut , j lugens (S , p. 123. 



f. Smaller : tarsus 0'8 inch ; head and neck 



lighter chestnut bonapartii c?, p. 123. 



v. Head and neck blackish, dotted with ochre ; 



throat white rufa 5 > P- 121- 



1. Corethrura pulchra. (Plate IX.) 



Rufous-headed Rail, Lath. Gen. Hist. B. ix. p. 379 (1824: Sierra 



Leone). 

 Crex pulchra, J. E. Gtray, in Griffith's ed. Cuvier, An. Kingd.,Aves, 



pp. 410, 642, cum fig. ; id. Zool. 3Iiso. p. 13 (1831) ; Schl. Mus. 



Pays-Bas, Ralli, p. '2'd (1865 : Gold Coast). 

 Galliuula pulchra, Swains. B. W. Afr. p. 243 (1837). 

 Alectm-a pulchra, Swains. B. W. Afr. p. 243. 

 Rallus ciunamomeus. Less. Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 99 (Casamance). 

 Ortygometra pulchra, G. R. Gray, List Grallce Brit. Mus. p. 120 



(1844): id. Hand-l. B. iii. p. 6.3, no. 10468 (1871). 

 Ortygometra ciunainomea, Gray, List Grallce Brit. Mus. p. 120 



(1844 : R. Gambia) ; id. Hand-l. B. iii. p. 63, u. 10471 (1871). 

 Corethrura pidchra, Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 595 (1846) ; Hartl. Orn, 



